Donna Holland loves ten pin bowling, card making and a little device around the same size as a car beeper that guides her as she walks the streets of her home in Central West New South Wales. But her vibrating 'mini guide' doesn't always prevent her bumping into things such as signs and street ...

For people with a disability, it can sometimes be hard to find a job and earn some money. But one farm near Orange is bucking that thought and providing extraordinary opportunities for people in need....

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Three separate inquiries into abuse of disabled people in institutions and residential care have now been announced. There'll be a Victorian parliamentary inquiry, one by the Victorian ombudsman and a national Senate inquiry....

The former disability commissioner Graeme Innes has argued the Attorney-General George Brandis is not doing his job. Graeme Innes says all the attorneys-general he worked under stood by the view that the Human Rights Commission should gave frank and fearless advice, but that changed under ...

A Senate inquiry has heard alarming evidence from young people with disabilities, forced to live in nursing homes due to a lack of adequate residential care. Some of those giving evidence have described high levels of depression, anxiety and loneliness among those living in aged care homes. ...

Disability groups fear that some people may fall through the gaps as states move towards privatising all disability services under the NDIS. Unions warn the NDIS could lead to a flood of shonky operators more concerned about making a profit than looking after people with disabilities. ...

If God exists, why create a world in which evil is possible? What about suffering that results from natural causes? Both questions require we face the freedom, finitude and fragility that constitute what it is to be human....